[Alpine-info] Alpine converts text attachments badly (was "from a user who only speaks ascii")

[M.RossARR]

This message uses email standard character set UTF-8 per RFC 2130!
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I am setup for UTF-8 - Everything translated well into my computer
from Joe's original message, I saw the real characters as they
should be below:


> > On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:

> >

> > This one I use fairly frequently...

> > copyright?      ©

> >

> > The rest of these I have occasionally been guilty of pasting in.

> >

> > degrees?        º [IE: water freezes at 32ºF & boils at 100ºC]

> > one half?       ½

> > one quarter?    ¼


But the followup message from Mike messed up the characters as I see
in the quote below - question marks. Mike's message also triggers a
notice that he is sending out ISO-8859-15 character set email! Not
UTF-8!


> On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Mike Miller wrote:

>

> > This one I use fairly frequently...

> > copyright?	?

> >

> > The rest of these I have occasionally been guilty of pasting in.

> >

> > degrees?	? [IE: water freezes at 32?F & boils at 100?C]

> > one half?	?

> > one quarter?	?

>

> As you can see above, all I saw were question marks in your

> message where special characters should have appeared.  This seems

> to be caused by either a bug or bad configuration in Alpine.


Mike's software or machine messing up?  What about gmail?  I
received correct characters from Joe's sample! I received question
marks from Mike repeating Joe's sample! The header of Mike's message
shows:

Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED;
    BOUNDARY="1702920797-1297858280-1237662632=:14411"

I am set for UTF-8 & get a notice that Mike's message is
ISO-8859-15! The parts are:

1    63 lines   Text/PLAIN (charset: ISO-8859-15 "Latin 9 (Euro)")
2     4 lines   Text/PLAIN

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